New Postgrads Join the Lab

This summer we’re been lucky enough to have two incredibly talented new trainees join the Reilly Lab as post-graduates. Elise and Rohit will be diving deep into the forefront of genomics full time for the next two years in lab! Elise brings her experience in evolution, and math to the team while Rohit brings an expertise computational biology and technology to the Reilly Lab. We’re incredibly excited to see what they accomplish and how they grow. will engineer evolutionary adaptive variants into new cell lines while Debbie will deploy functional prediction method to the scale of entire adaptive haplotypes. Read more about them below or check out our whole team.

Elise Root

Elise is a postgraduate associate in the Reilly lab from Cranbury, New Jersey. She is joining the lab after graduating from Williams College with a degree in biology and math. At Williams, she worked on a thesis with Professor David Loehlin that investigated how different regulatory elements and distances in the genome could influence the gene expression of tandem duplicate Adh genes in fruit flies. In the Reilly lab, she is excited to learn more about computational techniques and genomics. Outside the lab, she enjoys knitting, reading, volunteering, and spending time with her family and friends.

Rohit is a Postgraduate Associate in the Reilly Lab who joined in August 2023. He is interested in developing computational tools to better our understanding of the human genome and its role in disease and evolution. Originally from Sunnyvale, CA, Rohit started his career in research by working in the clinical chemistry and toxicology laboratories at San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF under Dr. Alan Wu in high school. He then attended UCLA and graduated with degrees in Computational and Systems Biology and Computer Science. While at UCLA, he studied muscle development in C. elegans under Dr. Pavak Shah and created a data pipeline to genotype cancer cells in the lab of Dr. Paul Boutros. Outside of research, Rohit enjoys hiking and baking, and will hopefully one day work up the motivation to actually go to the gym instead of just talking about it.

Rohit Ghosh